Keven Ann Willey, in an "Ask the Editor" piece in The Dallas Morning News, plugs the addition of five new blogs to the fifty or so that the DMN already runs. She says "savvy" readers already know about them. She says the DMN is "excited" about the opportunities the new blogs present. She says they are part of an "explosion" of new blogs newspaper-wide.
Pardon me if I'm less excited than she is. The Opinion blog, where all the topics used to be discussed, now seems to be more and more just an announcement vehicle for discussion that's moved to the other blogs. There's less and less reason for readers to come back there. And I sincerely doubt that the "Death Penalty" blog is going to attract enough readers to sustain itself. How long will it be before the DMN launches a "blog" blog, where we can discuss the "explosion of new blogs" on the DMN alone?
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Clearly, they're just flailing about, trying to stay relevant.
All newspapers are flailing. I don't fault them for trying to stay relevant, even if I sometimes criticize the specific things they try. If they try enough things, maybe some of them will work.
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